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The NFL is a multi hundred billion dollar corporation. Goodell is the face... A meat puppet if you will... In a normal company of that size the CEO is the highest power and authority with the exception of the Board of Directors. In this case the BoD are comprised of members worth more than the NFL.... not my point though..

In a company this size there are thousands of lawyers, analysts, marketing, etc... Goodells actions and words are vetted by all of them. No man in his right mind turns over a portion of a near trillion dollar empire to one man. Thats sheer lunacy. In the wake of Enron CEOs have less total power... Even the President of the United States is kept in check by a system of checks and balances.

The BoD meets often and from that they give Goodell his directive, every action he does to achieve that directive is vetted.

Take Apple and Microsoft for instance, for many years there has been speculation as to whether Jobs, and gates actually participate in the daily running of the companies of if they are just figure heads.....

Evidence of Goodells power and actual decision making is when the NFLPA or the NFLCA meet with the NFL, lawyers come to terms and make the deals... Not Goodell, he isn't even present at those meetings.

On a smaller scale when a VP of operations of a company tells a District manager to cut 20% of his personnel, he does it, or someone is found that will do it. That manager takes all the heat and beating while the VP still looks rosy.

What most people that do not come from a corporate environment or have held any noteworthy position in companies of that size, don't realize is that the two factions that run those companies are Human Resources, and Accountants. Most CEOs these days Halliburton for example are run by ex Accountants.

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The NFL is an unincorporated 501(c)(6) association, a federal nonprofit designation. Not being a jerk just wanted to point that out.